HARRISBURG (Jan. 22) – Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf picked his first political fight with the Senate Republicans over the recall of dozens of lame-duck appointments made by former Gov. Tom Corbett, undoing several “eleventh hour” executive nominations and removing new Office of Open Records chief Erik Arneson.

Kane claims that special prosecutor Thomas Carluccio, a Republican, was appointed illegally to investigate her office. Carluccio could not be reached…

That shift comes along with other American actions that Mr. Assad’s supporters and opponents take as proof Washington now believes that if Mr. Assad is ousted, there will be nothing to check the spreading chaos and extremism. American planes now bomb the Islamic State group’s militants in Syria, sharing skies with Syrian jets. American officials assure Mr. Assad, through Iraqi intermediaries, that Syria’s military is not their target. The United States still trains and equips Syrian insurgents, but now mainly to fight the Islamic State, not the government.

Under Rivera’s tenure, graduate rates and state assessment scores rose at the Lancaster School District, according to a news release. The district’s budget also has grown by millions, the news release stated.

LOSER: Mark Emmert and the NCAA: What few teeth the NCAA had left have effectively been pulled with news of the settlement agreement. The athletic governing body can now return to its seemingly full-time occupation of defending itself against criticism that it helps large universities exploit athletes’ talent for little or no recompense in return…

Rocky entices Adrian into his apartment on their first date, he physically bars her exit despite her ongoing requests to leave, he kisses her over her initial resistance, they sink together to the floor and sexual intercourse is implied by the scene and seemingly verified by the later story line.

Eligibility for free or subsidized lunch for students from low-income households serves as a proxy for gauging poverty, says the foundation, which advocates education equity for students in the South.

Holder’s action represents the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago as part of the war on drugs.

It is not clear to us that the NCAA had the power to “kill” any athletic program and, if it does, the process and safeguards would have made it extremely unlikely under the current circumstances.

A statement from the Paterno family says the “repeal of the consent decree and the return of the wins to the University and Joe Paterno confirm that the NCAA and the Board of Trustees acted prematurely and irresponsibly in the unprecedented sanctions that NCAA imposed on the University, the players, coaches and the community.”